{"id":53337,"date":"2017-03-02T00:24:56","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T06:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=53337"},"modified":"2017-03-02T02:10:10","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T08:10:10","slug":"resist-trump-tuesdays-protesters-take-on-police-brutality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/resist-trump-tuesdays-protesters-take-on-police-brutality\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Resist Trump Tuesdays&#8217; protesters take on police brutality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Lauren Jensik<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"dropcap\">Gabe Gonzalez thinks being poor and a person of color should not be a crime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"headline title\">\u201cBefore you\u2019re found guilty, before you\u2019ve had a court date, before you\u2019re found innocent, before your case is dismissed, if you\u2019re poor, you can\u2019t get out of jail,\u201d said Gonzalez, director of organizing at the Center for Community Change.<\/p>\n<div id=\"application-body\">\u00a0Gonzalez was one of nearly 100 protesters who took to the streets in downtown Chicago last week to voice concerns over excessive police force and incarceration in Illinois. <!--more--><\/div>\n<p>The protest, urged by religious leaders and The People\u2019s Lobby, a grassroots organization, was the fifth installment in what has been coined \u201cResist Trump Tuesdays,\u201d and comes at the heels of President Donald Trump\u2019s pledge to \u201csend in the feds\u201d if the violence in Chicago doesn\u2019t decline.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am unaware of any time in history where militarizing a situation has led to a decrease in crime,\u201d Gonzalez said.<\/p>\n<p>Esau Chavez, a participant in Tuesday\u2019s protest, agreed that the root causes of violence are poverty and discrimination, and placing more police on Chicago streets isn\u2019t the answer to rising crime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need community resources,\u201d Chavez said. \u201cBetter schools, fully funded schools, after-school programs\u2026job training to invest in the green energy that we need in the future\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The protesters called on Chief Justice Timothy Evans to end Cook County\u2019s practice of bail bonds, which Chavez claimed are more than most prisoners arrested for low-level offenses are able to pay while awaiting court dates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you said to any one of [these prisoners] \u2018Do you want to be in jail?\u2019 they\u2019d say no,\u201d Gonzalez said by phone Tuesday afternoon. \u201cIf they had the money, they\u2019d put it up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chavez said last week \u201c95 percent of the people in Cook County jails are waiting for trial. Sixty-five percent of the people can\u2019t afford their bond, so they\u2019re just basically sitting in prison for being poor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Nora Fox Handler, a mental healthcare advocate and participant in Tuesday\u2019s protest, at least 25 percent of inmates at Cook County Jail are suffering from disabilities and mental illness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt could be as high as 70 percent,\u201d Handler said. \u201cThe Cermak Hospital in the Cook County Jail is the largest mental hospital we have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With family members struggling with disabilities, Handler has become an advocate for increased funding of mental health services and clinics, as well as quality training for police officers on crisis intervention.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe police were not hired to be social workers,\u201d Handler said, \u201cbut [people with disabilities and mental illnesses] are on the street without services, and so they\u2019re interacting with police more and more.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"featurecaption\">Photo at top: A demonstrator holds a banner at the fifth &#8220;Resist Trump Tuesdays&#8221; march on Feb. 21 in downtown Chicago. 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